Studi per violino

This work collects together basic musical gestures, and while not aiming at completeness, the twelve movements nevertheless form a loose cycle. They are compositional studies, insofar as they explore...

This is a revised edition of the scale studies published in 1948. It contains the major and minor scales used during violin teaching at elementary level as well as broken triads and seventh chords. It...

József Bloch (1862-1922) was an outstanding figure in violin pedagogy in Hungary. With his violin method entitled A heged játék és tan tási módszere (Violin Playing and How to Teach it) he provided so...

French violinist-composer Pierre Rode was a pupil of G. B. Viotti and later a soloist at the court of Napoleon. He made several key contributions to violin pedagogy and repertoire. The 24 Caprices, ai...

Violinist-composer Rodolphe Kreutzer left his mark on the world of violin pedagogy with this collection of etudes and caprices. His legacy as a composer is not only limited to these studies, but they...

Jakob Dont's 24 Preliminary Studies are an important stepping stone towards acquiring the fundamentals of violin technique. Developing violinists typically work on Dont's Opus 37 before starting Kreut...

Franz Wohlfahrt's Opus 45 is a set of 60 exercises for the Violin student, available here in one complete volume. Originally composed for his own teaching purposes, Wohlfahrt's set of studies has beco...

Charles Dancla (1817-1907) is considered to be the last great representative of the French Violin School. He knew, in a special way, how to implement the principle 'no music without technique, no tech...